* Philippines 


The  Growth 
of  Trdde 

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Does  Democracy  Pay? 

It  has  paid  in  the  Philippines.  The 
year  before  we  gained  possession  of 
the  islands  the  total  foreign  trade 
amounted  to  #29,000,000;  in  1917  it  was 
#130,000,000. 

The  Philippines  are  our  experiment 
station  in  Democracy,  and  the  whole 
East  is  watching.  No  other  dependent 
race  ever  had  the  freedom  we  are  giving 
the  Filipinos.  All  of  the  governors  of 
provinces,  ma)mrs  of  cities  and  members 
of  the  Assembly  and  Senate  are  natives. 

If  we  try  to  give  the  Philippines  De- 
mocracy without  its  foundation,  Chris- 
tianity, our  experiment  is  liable  to  fail, 
but  the  Filipinos  freely  accept  Protes- 
tantism along  with  the  other  benefits  of 
American  rule — as  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  our  own  church  has  a membership 
of  50,000  who  contribute  eigbty-five  per 
cent  of  the  funds  necessary  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  native  church. 


Your  Mooney  Will  Take  Chris- 
tianity with  Democracy  into 
the  Philippines 

$25 

Will  support  a vacation  evangelist 
during  the  summer. 

$30 

Will  buy  a bicycle  for  an  itinerant 
preacher. 

$50 

Will  furnish  a scholarship  in  Theological 
Seminary. 

$180 

Will  pay  the  salary  of  a native  preacher 
for  a year. 

$250 

Will  aid  the  natives  in  building  a chapel. 

$500 

With  the  assistance  of  the  natives,  will 
build  a church. 


$5,000 

Will  build  a mission  house. 


Schools,  Soap,  and  Service 

The  United  States  has  realized  the 
part  which  education  and  sanitation  play 
in  Democracy  and  has  established  schools 
throughout  the  Philippines  and  hospitals 
in  a few  of  the  larger  cities. 

But  the  Church  must  help. 

We  must  build  two  hospitals. 

We  must  strengthen  the  Union  Theo- 
logical School. 

One  of  the  chief  ways  we  can  help  is 
by  building  Christian  dormitories,  or 
hostels,  at  the  high  school  centers. 
The  pupils  who  gather  in  these  schools, 
are,  for  the  most  part,  unused  to  city 
life  and  equally  unused  to  liberty.  They 
need  guidance,  and  they  need  a knowl- 
edge of  Christian  life  which  no  text- 
book can  teach. 

We  have  three  hostels,  all  of  which 
are  self-supporting,  but  we  need  six 
more  immediately. 


Your  Money  Will  P rovide 
Christian  Influences  in 
School  and  Hospital 

$10 

Will  take  a patient  to  a government 
hospital. 

$25 

Will  pay  the  expenses  of  a Bible  Institute. 

$50 

Will  keep  a high  school  boy  in  a Chris- 
tian hostel  for  a year. 

$1,000 

Will  aid  in  building  a Christian  hostel 
for  high  school  pupils. 

$2,000 

Will  buy  land  for  an  industrial  school. 


$2,500 

Will  aid  in  the  opening  of  a hospital. 


"They  Signal,  'Send  Books 

Since  the  time  we  took  possession  of 
the  Philippines  the  public  school  system 
has  grown  from  practically  nothing  until 
there  are  now  650,000  pupils.  After 
twenty  years  of  American  occupancy 
English  is  more  generally  known  than 
Spanish  was  after  four  hundred  years. 

The  increase  of  literacy  brings  the 
question, “What  are  they  going  to  read 

Our  church  has  established  a publish- 
ing house  which  yearly  prints  and  dis- 
tributes millions  of  pages,  but  the  whole 
enterprise  needs  to  be  put  on  a firmer 
business  basis,  and,  in  this  as  well  as  in 
our  other  work,  the  church  at  home  must 
pay  part  of  the  cost. 


Your  M oney  Will  A ssist  in  the 
Distribution  of  Christian 
Literature 

$1 

Will  aid  in  the  distribution  of  tracts. 

$5  ' 

Will  help  the  circulating  library  for 
native  preachers. 

$8 

Will  supply  a Sunday  school  with  litera- 
ture for  a year. 

$100 

Will  buy  books  for  a shelf  in  the  Theo- 
logical School  library. 

$500 

Will  print  new  editions  of  dialect 
hymnals. 

$1,000 

\\  ill  aid  in  the  purchase  of  new  property 
for  the  publishing  house. 


Published  by 

<Tke  Centenary  Commission 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church 

150  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York 
1918 


